Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

Date and Time

May 1, 2015
10:00AM - 11:50AM EDT

Location

William James Hall, Room 1550, Kirkland Street

“Indonesian Mental Health”

Speakers:

“The Passage of the National Mental Health Law in Indonesia: A Personal Legend that Costs an Arm and a Leg”

Nova Riyanti Yusuf, Psychiatrist; former Member of Parliament for the House of Representatives, the Republic of Indonesia.

"Mental Health in Aceh, Indonesia"

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Byron J. Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Program in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; and the Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Karen Kwass
karen_kwass@hms.harvard.edu
(617) 432-2676

Chairs:

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Byron J. Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Michael M.J. Fischer, Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Erica Caple James, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Seth Donal Hannah, Postdoctoral Associate, Anthropology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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